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was buried in the Temple Church, where there^ is, 

 or was, a monumental brass to his memory, having 

 thereon his and his wife's effigies, with an inscrip- 

 tion in English. His Reports were printed several 

 years after his death. (Wood's Athence Oxonienses, 

 1. 293. 369. ; Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, 63. 

 178.; Bihliotheca Legum AnglicB, i. 236.242., ii. 

 213. ; Reports of Deputy Keeper of Public Records, 

 Second Report, Appendix, ii. p. 73. ; Fourth Report, 

 Appendix, ii. p. 37.) C. H. Coopee. 



Cambridge. 



Corrupted Names of Places (Vol. v., p. 285.). — 

 I beg to offer a few additions to mispronounced 

 names of places : 



Rampisham - Dorset - Ransom 

 Beaminster - Do. - Bemmister 



Portisham - Do. - Possum 



Portishead - Somerset - Posset. 

 In Sussex the names of places ending in ly are 

 pronounced with the accent on the last syllable ; 

 e.g. West HoathZy, HellingZy, &c. In Gloucester- 

 shire, a place written Newland is unexpectedly 

 called Newland. C. W. B. 



My memory enables me to make the following 

 small additions to the list of "Popular Dialects" 

 requested by your correspondent P. M. M. The 

 names of , the towns are derived exclusively from 

 ray native county, Essex : 



Spelling. Pronunciation. 



Bradwell - - Bradell 



Brentwood - - Burnt'ood 



Brightlingsea - - Bricklesea 



Chelmsford - - Chensford 



Coggeshall - - Cockshall 



Colchester - - Cou'chester 



Davenham ■< - Dagmim 



Kelvedon - - Kelldon 



Margaretting - - Margretten 



Mersy Island - - Masy Island 



Mount Nissing - - Money's End 



Toulleshunt Darcy - Toussent Darcy. 



M. W. B. 



Story of Ginevra (Vol. v., pp. 129. 209.).— 

 Bramshall, Hants (of which there are some views 

 in Nash's Mansions), claims to be connected with 

 a Ginevra tradition ; so that Rogers seems to be 

 justified in stating that "many" old houses in this 

 country do so. P. P. 



Ornamental Hermits (Vol. v., pp. 123. 207.). — 

 Florence must be in error as to the locality of 

 one of her hermits. There is no place called 

 Marcham in Lancashire, nor any resident family 

 of Powyss. The late Lord Lilford certainly mar- 

 ried a Lancashire heiress in 1797, and became 

 possessed of property near Warrington. Whether 

 he had a hermit, I cannot say ; but I never heard 

 of a hermit in the Preston neiarhbourhood. P. P. 



Dr. Fell (Vol. v., p. 296.).— Mr. Tom Sheridan, 

 the only child of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by 

 his wife (Miss Elizabeth Linley), is author of the 

 lines on Dr. Fell. They were written on the cele- 

 brated Dr. Parr, under whose tuition he was. Why 

 he gave to Dr. Parr the nomen " Dr. Fell," I do 

 not know. I have often heard my dear mother 

 repeat the lines : 



" I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, 

 The reason why I cannot tell, 

 But this I know full well, 

 I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. 



The metre of the third line would be more per- 

 fect by the addition of the dissyllable ; but the lines 

 I have so often heard want this. 



My mother was very intimate with the Sheridan 

 family, and many years agone she informed me 

 that Miss Jane Linley (afterwards Mrs. Ward) 

 told her that young Tom Sheridan composed the 

 foregoing lines on Dr. Parr. E. F. 



List of Prothonotaries (Vol. v., p. 294.). — Lists 

 of the prothonotaries of the Court of Common 

 Pleas, from Henry VIII. to George IV., may be 

 collected from the Reports of tTie Deputy Keeper of 

 Public Records, Second Report, Appendix, ii. 67 — 88.; 

 Fourth Report, Appendix, ii. 30 — 52. 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



The Vellum-bound Junius (Vol. iii., p. 262.; 

 Vol. v., p. 303.). — Since I wrote to you I have 

 seen my informant, and am now enabled to state, 

 that what your correspondent calls " the vellum- 

 bound Junius," at Stowe, was, as I said, printed 

 on vellum, but was not bound in vellum. 



V. B. J. 



Plague Stones (Vol. v., p. 308.).— The three fol- 

 lowing places, where these stones of exchange were 

 erected, have just occurred to me, and I forward 

 them to add to the desired list : — 



At Derby the stone was known by the name of 

 the Headless Cross; and it has within the last few 

 years been removed for preservation to the Arbo- 

 retum in that town. 



A stone of a similar name existed at Shrews- 

 bury. 



At East Retford, in Nottinghamshire, was also 

 one, called the Broad Stone. L. Jewitt. 



George Trehern (Vol. v., p. 295.). — George 

 Trehern, or Treheryon, was Autumn Reader of 

 Lincoln's Inn, 12 Hen. VIII. ; Lent Reader there 

 16 Hen. VIII. ; and one of the Governors of that 

 society 12 & 17 Hen. VIII. His reading on Carta 

 Forestse appears to have been printed in 4to., but 

 in wjiat year is not stated. (Dugdale's Origines 

 Juridiciales, 251.259.; Bihliotheca Legum Anglice, 

 i. 24., ii. 191.) C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



